Exhibition on Structure and Representation

University of Tokyo Exhibition — The Potential of Urban Science: The Current State of Science and Technology in the City

Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Participated in the University of Tokyo New York Office event “The Potential of Urban Science: The Current State of Science and Technology in the City.”

Publication Date

March 1 – 13, 2022

Project Client

Associate Professor Yuji Yoshimura, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo

Project Description

From the official site:

“The development of technology and its penetration into daily life is making it possible to collect urban activity at an unprecedented granularity. Human behavior, which architects and planners once could only imagine in their heads, can now be analyzed as big data — making ‘architecture, urban planning, and city-making driven by data,’ which was previously impossible with just the eye and the hand, finally within reach. Through the projects on display, this exhibition looks at the city through the lens of ‘science.’ We hope visitors will sense the possibilities of this new field of Urban Sciences.”

“It asks how big data in cities — and its analysis, including with AI — can be leveraged for urban analysis, urban design, and architectural design. Precisely because we live in an era dominated by the web, we placed importance on the experience of ’things,’ on a sense of touch, and on the experience of space.”

Project Role

Exhibiting artist

[Urban Diversity in Tokyo]

Tama Art University Exhibition — Visible × Invisible: Big Data and the Next Generation of Information Representation

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0900

Participated in TUB’s 12th exhibition, “Visible × Invisible — Big Data and the Next Generation of Information Representation,” at Tama Art University’s TUB.

Publication Date

January 28 – February 12, 2022

Project Client

TUB (Tama Art University Bureau)

Project Description

From the official site:

“With the spread of the internet and advances in technology since the beginning of the 21st century, it has become possible to gather vast amounts of information. Today, the downsides are becoming apparent, and concerns about the impact on society are growing, with legal frameworks being developed in Europe and the US. ‘Big data’ gives us more information than humans can grasp on their own — but visualizing it can also help support social activity.

Data journalism, which developed through the 2010s, is perhaps the clearest example. The COVID-19 pandemic that began at the end of 2019 accelerated the shift from shoe-leather reporting to news analyzed from data. Collaboration with AI is also advancing. This exhibition presents the leading edge and current state of that kind of information visualization.”

Project Role

Exhibiting artist

Urban Diversity in Tokyo

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0900

A visualization of urban-science research that quantified the concept of “urban diversity” using the biological “species diversity index” and examined its economic impact on urban environments.

Publication Date

January 28, 2022

Project Client

Associate Professor Yuji Yoshimura, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo

Project Description

A web-based outreach piece built around research by Associate Professor Yuji Yoshimura’s group at the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo.

The research quantifies the concept of “urban diversity” using the biological “species diversity index” and examines its economic impact on urban environments; a positive correlation was found between areas of high urban diversity and retail and restaurant sales — a result likely to be widely cited in future work on urban science.

For the content, a 3D map was built from full building-footprint data across Tokyo, with the biodiversity index used as the thematic layer. The city can be explored in either autopilot or interactive modes.

Project Role

Art direction, coding, processing of building and thematic data for delivery.

[University of Tokyo Exhibition — The Potential of Urban Science: The Current State of Science and Technology in the City]
[Tama Art University Exhibition — Visible × Invisible: Big Data and the Next Generation of Information Representation]

COVID-19 Budget: Visualizing Central Government Payees

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0900

A network visualization of payees receiving funds from Japan’s central government ministries under the FY2020 “COVID-19 budget.”

COVID-19 Budget: Visualizing Central Government Payees

Publication Date

January 28, 2022

Project Client

Personal project

Project Description

Produced on my own initiative alongside the NHK Special “Verifying the 77 trillion yen COVID-19 Budget” companion content.

Exhibited at the Tama Art University exhibition “Visible × Invisible — Big Data and the Next Generation of Information Representation.”

As an exhibition piece, rather than examining each data point in detail, it is designed to convey a sense of the whole and its sheer scale when viewed from a distance.

Project Role

Art direction, design, front-end coding, and data processing — all handled personally.

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University of Tokyo Exhibition — The Potential of Urban Science: The Current State of Science and Technology in the City

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Tama Art University Exhibition — Visible × Invisible: Big Data and the Next Generation of Information Representation

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Urban Diversity in Tokyo

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COVID-19 Budget: Visualizing Central Government Payees

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